Transcripts For SFGTV SFCTA Plans And Programs Committee 111

SFGTV SFCTA Plans And Programs Committee 111516 November 19, 2016

Sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . No announce. Mr. Clerk item one. Roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner hwang absent we have quorum okay. Thank you very much colleagu colleagues commissioner tang had a previous engagement can i have a motion can we take that without objection . 70 all right. Mr. Clerk item number 2. Sense advisory report this is an informational item. Good morning item number 4 the 3. 1 million for the traffic calming most of questions or comments from the cca the clarifications on specification by the degree to which federal dollars we need to continue the operations of the cable car and to replace the gear boxed in the overhaul funded made this monthly attractive were happy to have this and have the traffic calming efforts there is a large increase and desire for traffic calming item 5 the central subway master plan the cca wants to ask a question, of course, something we didnt touch on much and should perhaps be part of every study and discussion how land use effects your subways and how the demographics are take into account to the get to the jobs in the Recreation Centers that 0 closes any remarks. Colleagues, any questions. Move on to Public Comment for item 22 anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues this is an informational item no action mr. Clerk item 3. Approval of the minutes for the october 11th an action. Colleagues questions or comments move on to Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number 3 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues can have a a motion to approve. Motion any commissioner avalos. Roll call vote commissioner avalos commissioner breed is absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin approval of the minutes are approved. Berkley item 4. Recommend allegation of 3 million plus prop c in prescription of one hundred thousand for prop k subject to the fiscal year distribution schedule a commitment to allocate prop k funds an action item. Good morning, supervisors and rather commissioners im the Deputy Director for the Transportation Authority youll jump into this allocation request grouping we have 4 requests to present the first, the cable car compulsion gear boxed request and this is a prop k request from the mta for approximately 2 or 1. 3 million inform leverage the federal funds to overhaul the com provision gearboxes it provide powers to the cable car there are 4 in use and one a spare and been in use since 1984 a rehab project as opposed to to the the cable car is a unique system and no official parts and component that can be purchased they need to be custommade tlasz information in the packet of materials that includes the shut down schedule the mta is proposing a series of 4 shut down systems 3 one more each cable car line and one for all of the cable car lines the 10 consecutive days a elevation period and an outreach plan a Communications Plan mta is working with the tourist and the hotel and convention and churches and stakeholders in the area to make sure to get the word out about the shut down schedule the project should be complete by the end of 2019 next the traffic calming implementation project is referred to as the backlog of traffic calming projects from area wide plans that were completed between 2 and 10 years ago this is the last banish of those projects there are the traffic calming plan that be will pretty a total of lovingly of them there are various schedules of development for the construction because of the various banishes will be going on encouraging but complete at the end of 2019 those are the recommendations from the plans and traffic island speed humps and the proposition of the speed humps the third for the edge or the Pedestrian Safety project this is a district 8 Transportation Improvement Program Capital Improvement for 80,000 for the design for the project and a commitment to allocate another one and 25 thousand when the project precedes and improves the glen canyon and request do from the stakeholders and supervisor wiener supports the request the project will be open by 2018 and the last request is from the Transportation Authority and this is for one hundred thousand dollars to leverage and caltrain grant to the sf ct a for district of funded phase one Study Program sections in the south of market area and studied 5 locations and made short term and easier to implement the recommendations for those ramps and this will expand the set of ramps that can be examined to 10 ramps the project focuses on the south of market area the highest clusters of high injury ramp intersection areas and this particular corridor but there are other projects that you are glounth the city like the alamany and the balboa park where ramps are studied for the improvements and other areas for the various types of configurations of ramps ill be working closely with the caltrain and Community Outreach beginning next summer and im available to answer any questions and various project sponsors from the sfmta. Thank you very much colleagues questions or comments commissioner avalos just a question about the work that we done on alamany right now a real need for pedestrian assess if the southern on the south side of alamany to get to the Farmers Market a goal to be able to make sure there is actually access for the pedestrian. Yes. There was a presentation at the finance Committee Last month that the alamany sgrarj Program Study it is currently underway the presentation went to finance committee because commissioner avalos the District Representative for the studies on this committee there two phases of mere term improvements that are recommend one of which youll see next month for lane configuration and putting in better striping to guide the traffic and guide the cyclists in the area the second phase of work for a multi use path that will allow for access and a signal going to get the streets wrong but provides the Farmers Market streets and drainage issues that will be creating a new path that is prone to flooding we need to work with puc but the striping requests should be coming forward next. The intuts the cross over sounds like you guys are working on that. Any questions or comments we want to thank you and the whole staff for working on a lot of the Laurel Heights the committee is working on for years with that, we open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Same house, same call . Same house, same call . All right. So moved. Mr. Clerk, call item 5. Update on the subway master plan an informational item. Good morning, commissioners matt longrange manager planning and with michael from the San Francisco Transportation Authority on a possible component of San Franciscos Transportation Future significant specifically subways and want to knowledge the Planning Department in this work as well the subway division is generated out of an ordinance by supervisor wiener isnt fall of 2015 and supervisor wiener is really about not losing momentum on transit investments for the city we think about the first iteration of subway we wanted to frame what is subways are their characteristics and how policy guidance how we think about implementing delivering the subways for the city of San Francisco also an operator a start find a conversation not predetermining who might run the subways in the city and thinking about initial candidate corridor they make sense the work will feed into the sf program and the rated this is the start avenue conversation this allows moving large volumes of people in separated corridors quickly hes a trade off were delivery process is very along the capital dollars are high in delivering those investments and they may not meet the needs of all travel choices and modes for the stations they may not allow everyone to get everyone where they want to go part of eco system we took a 3 pronged approach for the prior plan review and talked with san franciscans today about where they think subways are valuable and conducted new analysis in the prior plan saw a lot of great ideas that have not materialized but ideas that have for the corridors plan the central subway it is under construction and the brt project this past weekend and moving through the Environmental Review that is looking at what it comes next not the first time that San Francisco has tried to think big about railing we saw a number of corridors we wanted to keep in mind as we forwarded this work. In trying to hear if san franciscans today, we decided to use the leverage of online proud sourcing for people to engage at their convenience from their home and really spend as much or little time to let them looking at the stopping stations and rail alignments how they fit into the Current System we need to compliment that with outreach elements so we were touching folks may not have intersect access and have high internet 10 or penetration in our community and want to technique with us we had 34 pop up activities from the bayview and tenderloin and excelsior inwards were heard back the online tool westbound extremely successful 26 unique submissions some were single lines people were drawing their commute trips and comprehensive networks and systems that includes the software stations and creative thinking with the island a couple down in the south of america and africa and australia by the way, you can see on the heat map on the online tools asked folks to draw their dream for the future we can interpret where people think their mobility is not met and a greater need for more streamlined travel the corridor is at top based on the heat map that is a point of information to understand where the perspective and realty in travel patterns online we also at the pop up design the tenderloin bayview and excelsior we were intercepting people on the streets by and large didnt hear and the Transcription Services a need for from folks not native English Speakers and we can by and large is the one and thirty responses and the multiple hundreds of people we spoken with would not will have heard in these people that heat map to the pop up events we see some of the similar desire lines indicators of a greater market within the corridors and other lines as well and so were glad to i really appreciate that type of outreach and in district 11 in you look at who uses our Public Transportation system it is almost 95 Percent People of color and immigrants and people whose language is in the english i appreciate that. So this is we did our prior plan review we spoke with san franciscans today, we want to take those two information points and tie them together with the analytic work to think about where people need to move in the future and subways are the most appropriate with that, im going to turn it over to mraek to speak towards that work. Good morning michael sweaters with the Transportation Authority we use the 20 first two data points and did analysis with the existing operational analyze and looking at 2040 and looked where the land use patterns were developing not only the ridership but the overall traffic demand people that are driving places there is a lot of travel demands xhertsd to traffic High Quality Network like a subway we did look at density patterns this map shows with the population density and job density and looking ways those patterns develop into the future and then also looked at kind of where people patterns tend to develop if there is a u bic subway that helps us to understand where the demand is generated in the future from the 3 sets of information we generated 3 types of corridors will fall into multiple bucket but one across town people want to get across San Francisco and bart goes through the city from one side all the way to the other so people have a desire to get across town and the other a correction people want to get to the metro or other trunk lines regional trunk lines and the pure demand basis with Transportation Demand could be from as many transit and diving we likely see a lot of displaced in the future and as i mentioned some of the corridors will fall into multiple buckets before i talk about the maps dont get attached to them but we wanted to test what that looked like if we triple the subway within the city of San Francisco we have 15 million today and another thirty miles with two concerts looking where we generate the most demands using the analysis okay. This is where we think he can generate ridership where peoples designations if you look at this the lines in the geary area and then makes its way south by the Golden Gate Park an extension of t third at the lombard and the underground part of t third and in addition the van ness area heading southeast into the south part of mission bay with the m and putting that both is the soma pulling it out of the metro and then we said okay. This is one comparison lets see if we have a different concept how to get more geographic coverage and looked at it trade offs between corridors and different alignments within a similar corridor thats why we came up with the system and the t third a line into Hunters Point shipyard and the fillmore and divisadero and then the extension will be going to the physics rather than the lombard for the t third and the geary is out towards the beach and this is corridors not streets but in the vicinity and underground with the existing m with the mission bay and on the southern part of city some couple of those were shown including the extension of the m line and the geneva corridor so we looked at sort of what the potential for those kinds of system and we did find if we were able to do something as monumental tripling the subways in San Francisco well have significant benefits including major traffic times, savings about 25 minutes for travelers on a given trip 10 to 15 minutes round trip by quoting the system well be able so have the barts level in the 90 percent no union train will be arriving at that time, the significance of ridership 10 to 15 percent and under either of the corridors nektsd youll see grandchildren 40 percent of san franciscans being able to walk to theyre walking danced to the station we did an outlook and found it low income residents benefits at a larger rate than the population at large and this is a complicated map to show you the analysis looking at the traffic time for the zones across the city blue is increases and red is increases in travel time this year to the concept b the Hunters Point shipyard there was a direct line improves a significant amount of time at this point we know there are Major Network benefits and there are some next steps to you to do the hard work of prioritizing and an incremental way to develop the projects with that, to graham. Thanks micel as i mentioned the thirty miles of subway will not materialize overnight but incredibly build out for the where will we be moving the most people and the new investments and new subways compliment and provided synergy benefits to the system were thinking from an interaction and build a robust system we dont want to leave anyone behind especially the needs of the high capacity reliable transit those are representative but want to frame the thinking how will we decide which routes corridors we want to think that prioritizing for investments and as i mentioned this the division the start of conversation but there is lots of other areas to be thinking dramatic and in an efficient like manner and funding is an easy one thirty miles of subway the funding stream didnt seem realistic in our lifetime maybe a change heed of us but we need to look at expanding resourcing and need to think about how we are delivering and speed up the timeline from a cost to calendar and schedule perspective and the cac report talked about land use not in the likelihood of major, Major Investments in the city without a conversation about land use and the number of people that those investment will be available for and how we can move and grow as a city those things need to be talked about together their intrinsically linked and lastly sorry not lastly conditioned inclusive and open outreach those decisions need to be made together the only way to be successful in that building champion champions of the Community Level and champions at the regional and federal level as well those these things need to come together to push forward individual elements of the subway divisions so well or were going to incapsulate and the work didnt stop there will feed into the connect sf program a misrepresent departmental collaborative effort not only the subways but the whole eco system the eco system is not the Silver Bullet all needs to create the comprehensive Mobility Network that San Francisco will need to be a desirable liveable place to live and competitive and reach the goals weve reached for ourselves the connect sf is underway and reach this fall with a survey talking abo

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